With the advent of software in cars, the automotive industry has been
undergoing a radical change. More and more vehicle functions are today
implemented by software, making software development a key activity in
the development of an overall vehicle system. One of the most important
challenges in this field is how to cope with the softwares complex
variability, resulting from the wide range of models and variants in which
todays cars are offered. However, the methods and techniques proposed in
the computer science literature for managing such variability during
software development are not as...